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Management

Leadership & Management

Working from Home and the Office [WFHO]

Graham Birkenhead, July 7 2020

We are a mere 4 months into the new rapidly evolving world order, and it is nowhere near over. It will be many months (being optimistic) before the first vaccines are available, there are no effective treatments in sight, and as we learn more and more about this new disease, we realise that its physiological impact is a lot more complex than we at...

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Leadership & Management

Onboarding the Remote Worker

Graham Birkenhead, June 23 2020

Following on from Andrew’s blog last week about onboarding the remote worker – what do we need to do differently to ensure success? Well, in general terms, we have exactly the same objectives: we need to welcome the new person to the team, ensure they quickly feel that they belong and are connected to their co-workers, give them the tools and expe...

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Market Strategy

Best in the World

Andrew Penny, March 3 2020

Subscribe to our Next Level Thinking for CEOS and Business Owners podcast.Listen to today's Best in the World podcast. Best in the World is a concept we've been working on for about 5 years. We wondered why some companies were extremely successful, expanded steadily and survived competitive approaches while others fizzled out. Many of the fizzlers...

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Market Strategy

Nobody Wants Your Stuff.

Andrew Penny, January 7 2020

Listen to this week's podcast here. As a kid, I would stare up into the night sky with amazement. It’s pretty obvious that we are a just a tiny part of a very large (one might even say universal) system. The same is true of our businesses – we are simply a small part of a large system. I can guarantee you that nobody really wants what you sell. Th...

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Two Big Take-Aways From 2019

Andrew Penny, December 31 2019

Over the last year we have been very fortunate and thank all of those who have trusted us to help them grow their businesses. We are working with a world leader in dam safety. They design systems that prevent millions of tons of ice and debris from shutting down power generation.

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Leadership & Management

Background Music - What's Yours?

Andrew Penny, December 24 2019

At this time of year background music is everywhere – (the one I dread hearing is ‘The Little Drummer Boy’ – Jesus had a drummer??) Can you hear what I hear…. We all know that stores are not playing it for our entertainment – they want to put us in a better mood perhaps? Well not exactly.

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Leadership & Management

6 - It’s Not What You Know - It’s Who You Know.

Andrew Penny, December 17 2019

Listen to today's podcast here Hi folks, as you know, the consulting business is based on trust. We have worked with many of you and helped you to improve your strategy, improve your revenues, improve your operations. Some of you have made dramatic shifts in direction others have seen your businesses expand by a factor of 10. We hope that we have e...

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Leadership & Management

5 - Sales Forecasts and Other Lies

Andrew Penny, December 10 2019

Sales management is a deep topic but this series of podcasts is focusing on the quick and easy ways to increase revenue. So let’s look at some of the obvious stuff which many companies forget to do. The adage “If you don’t measure it you can’t manage it” is absolutely true. “But I do measure sales results” you say! Fair enough.. but do you just man...

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4 - Bring ‘em Back From the Dead

Andrew Penny, December 3 2019

Please excuse the title, I’m writing this just after Halloween... Most companies have lots of old customers – not they are actually ‘old’, but simply companies that haven’t done business with you for a very long time. Why they stopped doing business with you is in most cases a mystery. Perhaps a sales rep annoyed them at some [point, or an order wa...

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Market Strategy

3 - Would you like fries with that?

Andrew Penny, November 26 2019

Almost everyone is familiar with the question – “Would you like Fries with that?”  Apart from being a well worn meme, it’s also one of the most profitable questions ever asked. To get your client to a purchase commitment, a finite expense has been incurred so any gross margin from the sale created by Up-selling goes right to the bottom line.

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